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And things keep habbening, Christian husband and father Pete Hegseth now threatens (or promises) to retrvn back to the Stone Age. Whether he means Paleolithic, Mesolithic or Neolithic is left unspecified, and so is whether he means Iran, US or the whole world. "Stone Age" trending worldwide on Xitter right now.
Very very problematic thing to say for a member of church belonging to Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches!
From CREC Book of Memorials:
Right now, we can be sure Mr Hegseth's pastor gives him very stern talking and calls him to repent and renounce satanic Darwinist lies unbecoming for true Biblical Christian.
And we all can continue monitoring the situation.
The Stone Age is an idiom. I can’t say what Doug Wilson’s personal beliefs on the progression of human history in light of creation are, but it’s entirely possible to hold to the belief in a (short tbh) Stone Age while taking the first 11 chapters of genesis 100% literally- this is just sneering.
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I haven't felt this negative about America since Bush Jr. Along with exposure to Paula White I feel myself being dragged back to my New Atheist days.
This stuff sure cycles fast.
Although I predicted Trump taking us to war with Iran during his 2024 campaign, during his first term I predicted here that the US couldn't be drawn into war with Iran because the failure of the Iraq war derailed those strategic plans. Sad to be wrong.
Good Friday- markets closed. Suspected ground operation incoming.
Once the ground operation starts he won’t need to worry about the markets anymore. The market manipulation was to buy time to either get a capitulation(lol) or finish preparations for the invasion.
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One wonders what they have on Trump at this point, this isn't his usual modus operandi. The other half of the Epstein files?
Maybe they just got rid of all the moderating influences in the general staff and elsewhere. I was reading just today that they tried this exact routine on Bush in 2007 but the CENTCOM commander said 'over my dead body' and blocked it: https://x.com/ClimateAudit/status/2039752164894015529
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I have to wonder why the Trump administration's foreign policy leadership thinks they can compel a regime that just killed 20-30k of their own citizens by hitting civilian infrastructure.
Well. If you destroy the electricity generating equipment, the capacity of the country to wage war is reduced to roughly throwing rocks and if the regime aligned engineers are surprisingly capable - a trebuchet.
Iran is insane, not retarded. Do you really think they haven’t planned for their equipment not having access to external power.
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It's very hard to keep the lights off to that degree. Also unclear how bombing a public health institute is going to help.
These types of campaigns have been ineffective against governments less willing to inflict hardship on their own citizens, and yet there remains an irrepressible constituency for the idea that the core issue with American foreign policy is not lack of public trust or coherent strategy, but that we're too squeamish.
Especially not these days with the solar revolution, which has taken Iran by storm just like many other countries in that area. Battery usage is still lagging behind but in a pinch even the old lead acid batteries will do. Together they effectively mean grid connectivity becomes optional for ordinary households.
Iran will end up demanding that every last cent of what it costs to rebuild their infrastructures will be collected from Hormuz tolls (with interest) that Europe et. al. will have to pay. The question is whether Europe has the balls to come out and state that every last cent they have to pay Iran for this will be collected from US tech firms via extraordinary taxes imposed on them. Alas we all know they don't...
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And the promise seems to be not entirely rhetorical. Pasteur Institute of Iran had been hit and so was, according to Trump, largest bridge in Iran.
The bridge hit is confirmed. Is Commander in Chief now picking bombing targets personally?
Liberation mode off, Genghis Khan mode on.
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You say that like the Allies didn’t hit plenty of bridges during the Liberation of France, to prevent the Germans from moving troops and supplies around.
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I think you can come up with better commentary than this.
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This is like at best eighth on the list of weird ejaculations from Trumpworld in the last 72 hours.
Fun word choice given what's going on with Noem's husband.
I don't want to know more.
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What do Pam bondis husband's tits look like?
At the rate this timeline is moving, we'll know in 24-72 hours.
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Your joke falls flat because the stone age is fully compatible with young earth creationism. The standard timeframe for the end of the stone age is 2000-4000BC depending on location/definition, and the "youngest" of YECs date the world at ~6500 years old, before the end of the stone age.
I just reread the opening of Genesis, and the first metal tools in the Bible actually appear much earlier than I had thought at only Gen 4:22 with the birth of Tubal-Cain: "Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of bronze and iron." There's 8 generations of stone-age then in genesis: Adam→ Cain → Enoch → Irad→ Mehujael→ Methushael→ Lamech→ Tubal-Cain.
Don’t forget the Bible also says that man was wiped out and had to start over.
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Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Is your contention that Adam and Eve came out of the Garden of Eden knowing how to smelt copper?
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Come on, man. I know that creationists are one of the traditionally iconic outgroups in rationalist-adjacent spaces. And I find Hegseth pretty frustrating myself. But if you asked Pastor Doug Wilson (de facto leader of CREC) whether there have ever been any peoples without metallurgy, what do you think he'd say? Do you really think it would bother him at all?
Used to be, during the golden age of Dubya. If we are retvrning to these times, why not bring back creation-evolution wars? This was the pinnacle of internet.
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"Bomb them back to the stone age" is, like threatening to turn somepace in to a parking lot or unleash hell, a common phrase that is meant to be taken seriously but not literally (nobody will be replacing an entire city/nation with asphalt and parking lines, nor opening a portal to Dante's circles, after all). I'd assume that's the context here, unless I'm missing something.
The US though, is in the fairly rare position of actually being able to literally bomb the world into the stone age through nuclear arms. Furthermore, they are currently an active part of a war. Thus, the threat carries a lot more weight. It is the difference between your mom saying she's going to kill you for destroying her favorite plates, and a thug pointing a gun at you saying the same thing.
Last time the US used nukes in anger, we bombed the target into the First World.
Stealing valor again, how predictable. Japan built itself into a first world country, with mostly efforts from the Japanese people. How are Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya and all those other third world countries doing after your carpet bombing? The world doesn’t revolve around you and you’re going to keep finding that out. You don’t get to claim credit here and there.
We never nuked any of them, carpet bombing doesn't work as well. Vietnam's doing pretty well. Iraq... well, better than under Saddam Hussein. Syria's on Putin's plate, and Libya on Europe's.
One would easily conclude that those countries do well with you out of the picture. Most glaring example being Saddam, Ghaddafi and Assad’s sand kingdoms. Diem’s Vietnam is worse than Vietcong’s Vietnam too. Plus whatever strong influence hbd has on these countries. Point being they have agency and you didn’t do much, and it would require some self-awareness for Americans to stop we wuzing others’ success.
Vietnam? Sure. Japan... not so much.
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